Spotify - anyone heard of it?

does spotify still stream while online w/playlists marked offline?

http://spoti.fi/UB5foW

is it fucked up for anyone else? i can play off my playlists but if i try to search it just says "browsing failed - please try again" over and over

Been listening all day with no problems.

Yes! I have heard of it. Some guy was talking about it the other day.

is it fucked up for anyone else? i can play off my playlists but if i try to search it just says "browsing failed - please try again" over and over

that happened to me when I tried to go to an artist page from a search; I got around it by clicking on the specific album I was looking for in the search results

spotify has finally arrived in ireland!

not even bothered now

comhghairdeas!

is there playlists for all that music that was on the ILX "Rough trade to...." thread?

Welcome to unlimited listening pleasure, you swarthy papist celts!!

A few of the rough guides are linked from here:

My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

Also a non-zero number of Spotify links in

The ILM Fan-made BEST OF/ANTHOLOGY Compilation project -- POST Tracklists, Cover Art, Liner notes, editorials, spotify links and/or otherwise LEGALLY obtained streaming album lists HERE!

Welcome to unlimited listening pleasure, you swarthy papist celts!!

^ new blog post i hope

New support page if anyones having problems
http://spoti.fi/Wa8zIy

Anyone tried new look updated and improved Soundrop app yet?

Just noticed that Zeppelin isn't on there anymore. The whole Zep catalogue used to be on Spotify, and now NOTHING. I'm sad. ;_;

I don't remember the Zeppelin catalog ever being there.

Oh shit, you might be right. I was probably thinking of the Stones.

still no Hounds of Love which saddens me since they have every other kate bush record - was that one on a different label than the rest?

Nope, same label as everything else prior to The Sensual World.

Weird one-album gaps like that baffle me. Why no Pretenders debut album, when the rest of their stuff is there?

I've never seen any Zeppelin on Spotify.

Signed,
An American

No, you're right. I was thinking I'd listened to a ton of Zep on Spotify during the artist poll, but I was confusing that poll with the Stones poll and the Stones listening binge.

Where are you guys as I can see HoL http://open.spotify.com/album/5BWl0bB1q0TqyFmkBEupZy and 1st Pretenders http://open.spotify.com/album/4oDYsMBe7KtOu12VNMO75k

I did figure out that you can find The Beatles on grooveshark by looking for "escarabajos."

they need to consolidate their entries and separate others, e.g. there are artist pages for Windy & Carl, Windy and Carl and "Carl, Windy" — and not all of those pages contain the same content. Also the LFO artist page has both the techno duo and the Lyte Funky Ones. The Scott Walker page has some albums from some amateur autotune-using nobody by the same name. Their classical indexing is horrifying. They could pay me $13/hr and I could sort it out for them.

"This album is not available in the United States" for both the K.Bush and Pretenders links.

spotify doesn't have any sort of crowdsourcing where users can suggest records for them to re-evaluate the license status of in their region, does it? because i have a feeling a lot of these gaps in discographies are just some quirk from the past that they never went back to later to fix

The issue is that they really don't give a fuck.

where is the new rihanna album i am upset

Destroyer's artist page is hilarious, there are records by at least three bands on there, maybe more

Anyone know if you can search within a users profile/playlists?

Try ctrl-F/whatever the Apple equivalent is; that should bring up a filter search for whatever screen you have open.

Actually I think it's ctrl-F on Apples, too

Tried it, but didn't work. Works ok looking at a single artist, but not a user afaik.

I see spotify has a web app now

I sometimes refer to it as "Snotify". Just letting you know.

I see spotify has a web app now

Oh yeah, I recently was told about MOG, which is pretty much the same thing as Spotify but browser-based (I think?) and has a slightly different set-up . I really don't have the time or attention to try and be on two different "social music platforms" and Spotify has pretty much replaced iTunes and downloading mp3s for me...

Anyone know if MOG is worth switching to? I kinda prefer a stand-alone application like spotify is, and it has built in audioscrobbling... But from what I hear the "cool kids" use MOG.

I used MOG for a bit a year ago. MOG didn't have the social/sharing side worked out as well as spotify at the time. perhaps it's changed.

MOG's ipad app was also hilariously bad. don't know if that's changed.

friend of mine swears by it. I don't know how their catalog or pricing compares to Spotify.

I use Spotify pretty heavily. Especially after I accidentally upgraded to iTunes 11.

No Kompakt and no Drag City are still the biggest holes as far as records I search for and then remember "d'oh, they still don't have that"

The biggest hole with Spotify for me is that every single track from a UMG label has some weird defective codec thing where it sounds like it's being heard through a table fan (kind of a rapid-rate whooshing that's especially audible on elements such as cymbals, chorus, reverb decay, and strings at a moderate dynamic level. Motown, Deutsche Grammophon, ECM, Decca, it's just a giant swath of classic records fucked up.

It's not specific to Spotify either, I first noticed it on UMG tracks from eMusic and Amazon MP3. Seems like when Universal went through the humungous task, several years ago, of converting all their holdings to MP3 in order to enter the digital sales realm, someone had something set to 'fastest conversion/lowest quality' or something.

aka the mistake was so huge that there's so question of UMG reconverting their entire library.

Computing power is pretty cheap these days. I can't imagine it would be that difficult to reconvert their entire catalog to MP3, assuming they were halfway smart about archiving everything in a lossless format the first time through.

Lewis OTM, noticed similar issues.

Is there a playlist or app or something that actually lists everything new added to Spotify? I subscribe to someone's weekly releases playlist but he misses a lot of stuff and the What's New doesn't have nearly everything that's new...

There really should be something that plugs into your Last.fm or w/e and tells you about new-on-Spotify releases. There's this I guess, trying it out now: http://spofm.net/

anyone having issues with the browsing function today ?